Our Team had completed the basic level of French Language training last year and this year we thought that we would take advantage of the 'lean' period between the projects and go a step forward in French. However, the French Language institute had less faith in us that we had in ourselves and told us that they would need to assess whether we have remembered enough to go for the next level. They informed us that they will hold an assessment over phone for each candidate and then evaluate whether we can go ahead. Many of us made the examiner's day by providing her enough material to laugh about for at least a couple of days. Here are some snippets of the conversation. All of this happened in French. What you see below is the exact translation in English. Snippet 1: Examiner talking to Punjabriti (name changed) Examiner: Do you have children? Punjabriti: Yes, I have a daughter. Examiner: How old is she? Punjabriti: She is three years old. Examiner: Do you also have a son? Pun
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